The Glasgow Schemes | The Ice Cream Wars

The Glasgow Schemes | The Ice Cream Wars | BBC Scotland

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The original idea of Glasgow's housing schemes, was to give people a decent place to live and raise their families. But a lack of shops and other amenities, as well as growing poverty, led to an increase in anti-social behaviour.
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@ruadhagainagaidheal9398 Жыл бұрын

Does anyone actually believe that Organised Crime is remotely interested in selling ice cream ? Or that ice cream was the main earner for the vans ? Naturally, ice cream was available if anyone actually wanted some - at midnight in a Scottish winter ? It was drugs of course they were selling.

@thepoliticalhousethatjackbuilt Жыл бұрын

It started out as Ice Cream vans selling groceries and tobacco, then Organised crime started taking over the runs from legitimate drivers using threats and violence to intimidate them to give up their runs (including Arson and Murder) to sell drugs and stolen goods.

@thestrengthwithin4249 Жыл бұрын

Who told you that ??

@hazelisaacs2201 Жыл бұрын

same in Yorkshire, Essex and the outskirts of most big cities. The vans provided reasonable cover stories: driving round slowly visiting all the housing estates at all hours, customers come running, money changes hands, goods in brown bags passed out the side window by an anonymous hand & off to the next drop. Amazing how many dodgy videos, stolen booze, untaxed imported knock - off cigarettes & more could be stashed under a few boxes of cheap cash & carry chocolate biscuits, baby wipes or packs of football stickers. Some straight law - abiding neighbours discussed in baffled wonder the time one particular van turned up selling "potted hyacinths, ideal gift!" of all things. Blokes turned up & handed over bundles of cash notes for what looked like a plastic plant pot of uncertain contents covered in some sort of bubble wrap with a generic picture of flowers on the side. There may even have been a few real flowers for sale in case some unknown bumpkin wandered up wanting a cheap gift for the missus thinking it was legit.

@connormclernon26 Жыл бұрын

It wasn’t just ice cream. They were basically mobile convenience stores, and yeah, drugs too. But ice cream wars makes for a wonderful newspaper title

@IanBroon1 5 ай бұрын

@@thestrengthwithin4249 lived in Garthamlock in through late 60s, 70s and 80s the only contraband Jimmy Mitchell sold was single cigarettes and Askit powders.

@min-jontung4956 Жыл бұрын

Our local ice cream driver was found dead in his van. He was covered with syrup and sprinkles with a flake in each ear. The police ruled out foul play as they think he may have topped himself.🍧🍨

@DW51380 Жыл бұрын

Worst case of su-ice-ide I’ve ever seen

@TheSunDanceKid100 6 ай бұрын

Heard he was found on a sundae

@gump5ter01 Жыл бұрын

It’s really funny as where I live no one has a van but 2 mile down the road at my mothers house they get a van 4 times a day and it’s always mobbed !!! But I remember growing up in the 80s and the van was like a beacon to ask yer maw for 10p

@revengenerd1 Ай бұрын

Where I live now we get 2 vans on a Sunday which are different people, and the weekdays are so random can go weeks with nothing then the guy turns up at least once a week for a month or two then nothing again except on a Sunday. At my old place a few miles away it was a van around 7pm except he only came round in non summer months!